The Royal Road to Card Magic

1948
Written by Frederick Braue, Jean Hugard
Work of Various
292 pages (Paperback), published by Dover Publications
Illustrated with drawings by Francis J. Rigney
Language: English
177 entries
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Creators Title Comments & References Page AA Categories
The Overhand Shuffle
3
Controling the Top Card
5
Controling the Bottom Card
6
Retaining the Top and Bottom Card in Position
6
The Run single card run
 		7
Top Card next to bottom Card and back to the top
7
The Injog basic handling for overhand shuffle
 		8
The Undercut cutting to the Injog
 		8
Overhand Shuffle Control
9
Overhand False Shuffle
10
Topsy-Turvy Cards
13
Bottom Reverse bottom card stays in place as deck is turned over
 		14
Tenkai Ishida Optical Revolve crude handling
 		14
A Poker Player's Picnic no-touch, little bit of dealing involved
Related toVariationsAlso published here 16
Open Cull while looking through the deck, crude
Variations 16
A Pocket Discovery deck in pocket, card produced at named number
 		18
Telepathy Plus one of five, simple
 		21
Thought Stealer progressive set up
Variations 23
Pinkie does it
25
A Card and a Number card is found at number which was "dealt" by spectator before
 		26
The Riffle Shuffle
28
Retaining a Card at the Top of the Deck
30
Retaining the Bottom Card or Cards
30
Riffle Shuffle in the Air
31
An Instinct for Cards interlocking chains
Variations 32
Jack McMillen Mirror of the Mind suit together
 		34
Ultra Card Divination 34. position, ten backwards count
 		35
Displaying the Top Card three handlings
 		37
The Ruffle riffling one-handed, two-handed and with single card
 		39
The Click bottom card click
 		41
Spread and Turnover on cloth-covered table & bare table
 		42
Springing the Cards
44
Gathering the Ribbon-Spread Pack
45
A Flourish Count
46
Throwing a Card
47
Waterfall Shuffle
48
The Fan
49
One-Hand Fan wide type
 		50
Thumb Fan
51
Pressure Fan
52
The Glide
53
Design for Laughter
Related toVariations 54
The Observation Test
Variations 56
Bottom-Card Glimpse three methods
 		59
Top-Card Glimpse I
61
Fan Peek glimpsing a card in center of small packet fan
 		62
Gray's Spelling Trick
63
Round and Round down-under-deal
Related to 66
The Key Undercut see also applications
 		69
Key Undercut Shuffle shuffling after placement
 		69
Do as I Do
70
Paul Rosini The Three Piles key card
 		71
The Twenty-Sixth Card remote key
Variations 73
Remote Key
73
A Meeting of the Minds remote key, alomst challenge
 		74
The Non-Poker Voice no-touch, suit
 		76
Intuition with Cards two card initialed, spectator and magician each chose them
 		78
Sliding Key Card under-spread placement
 		80
Top Palm, I (Single Card)
83
Top Palm, II (Several Cards)
86
Palm Glimpse glimpsing palmed card
 		88
Replacing Palmed Cards two methods
 		88
Card in the Pocket from top stock thought of with its position
 		90
Flying Palm card is thumbed off and palmed... context
 		91
Now You See It! palm section
Related to 92
one of four
94
Grab-Bag Card cards are withdrawn from packet, remaining card is selection
 		96
Good-Luck Card magician sits on card
 		98
Do it and Fail red black dealing sequence
 		100
Gathering of the Clan Nomad style
Variations 102
Spring Catch
105
A Vested Interest actually card to vest
 		105
Piano Trick
Related to 106
The Backslip slip cut right side
 		109
Backslip Control
110
Backslip Force slip type
 		110
Lightning Card
111
The Tantalizer twenty-second position and packet dealing
Related toVariations 112
Under Your Hat
Related to 114
Injog and Break
116
Overhand Break Control
117
Overhand Lift Shuffle
117
Lift Shuffle Force
119
Spread and Break securing a break at selection
 		120
Holding a Break
121
Spread and Break Control getting in Overhand Shuffle Position
 		122
The Sevens
Related to 123
Obliging Aces
125
Leapfrog leaps into view
 		126
Spectator's Card Trick
127
Edward Marlo, Martin Gardner A Poker Puzzle
Related to 129
Charlier Charlier Shuffle
131
Optical Shuffle
131
The Cut several methods
 		133
Second Method
134
Third Method
134
Fourth Method
135
An Incomprehensible Divination small packet challenge location
 		136
Palm Cut
136
Circus Card Trick "the next card I turn over..."
 		138
Black Jack, Detective two cards come together in the pack
 		139
The Double Lift and Turnover
141
Double-Lift Glimpse
143
Double-Lift Reverses three methods
 		144
Rapid Transit
145
The Trey transforming card into "tray"
 		146
Ambitious Card including push-through sequence
 		147
Throughth and Consequences
150
Insidious Dr. Fu Liu Tu offbeat presentation
 		151
The Pass
154
Riffle Pass
156
Off Agin, On Agin, Finnegin! card vanishs and reappeares via pass
 		157
Spread Pass classic style
 		157
Spring Pass
157
Kangaroo Card jumpes out of hat
Related to 159
Righting a Wrong little bit different effect
 		160
Blindfolded Pack tabled
 		161
Double Speller
163
Color Change
166
Double Color Change two cards simultaneously
 		167
The Changing Card
168
Self-Cutting Deck
169
A Pretty Cut
171
Pop-Up Card
171
A Bit of Byplay
172
Charlier Charlier Cut
172
Acrobatic Aces aces come to top and bottom via charlier cut
 		173
Reverses different methods
Related toAlso published here 177
Reversed Location using a reversed card
 		180
Spellbound
181
Sid Lorraine A Tipsy Trick slop shuffle
 		183
Double Reverse
185
Mentalivity
186
Mountebank Miracle kind of thought-of-procedure
 		188
Hindu Shuffle
190
Hindu Shuffle Control
191
Hindu Shuffle Control
192
Hindu Shuffle Force
193
Hindu Shuffle Glimpse
194
Natural Jog
195
The Step hindu shuffle context
 		195
Twelve-Down Riffle as card is returned
 		196
All Change Here Hindu Shuffle
 		197
Ewephindit
200
The Classic Force
201
One-Hand Force exposing a card in fan
Related to 204
Bottom Force spectator cuts from bottom, deck in magician's hands
 		205
Slide-Out Force knive
 		206
Two-Card Force
207
Riffle-Break Force
208
Sliding-Key Force
209
Double-Lift Force
210
Cut Force criss cross
 		210
Justice Card Trick Card is found blindfolded
 		211
Fours of a Kind dunbury delusion presentation
 		213
Pulse Trick divination by performer and spectator
 		214
Top Change
216
The Changing Card top change
 		218
Top-Change Byplay
220
Bottom Change
221
Top and Bottom Changes handling tips
 		222
The Selective Touch finding matching cards from pocket for any named card, binary four card set-up that combines to any card
Variations 225
A Future in Cards one of five
 		227
Jacks Wild
228
Think Stop
229
Deal Away
231
The Educated Cards
232
Reds and Blacks divided pack
 		234
Conus Ace Trick Aces transform in spectator's hand, travel to his pocket
 		249
Ladies' Looking Glass
255
Everywhere and Nowhere
260
Egyptian Pocket combo
 		263
Cards to Pocket ten cards
 		268
Enlarging and Diminishing Cards classic fan technique
Related to 276
Three Card Across
278
Everybody's Card, I transforms into four chosen cards, platform
Related to 281
Everybody's Card, II transforms into 3 chosen cards, platform
 		286
Data entered by Denis Behr, January 2004.